https://x.com/alexaigor/status/1841173848957333553
https://x.com/albersantin/status/1838587646282473868 When Lukashenko asked “What place does Marxism-Leninism occupy in this book on modern political economy?” when reviewing a new book for university students. He got the reply “first and most important”
Back in October 2022, Lukashenko met Dugin and described his trouble in creating a new ideology: https://m.eng.belta.by/president/view/lukashenko-talks-about-formation-of-state-ideas-153969-2022/
“It got me to look at your views and recall the philosophy I studied – the Marx-Lenin philosophy. Well, it’s been some time. It turns out we have not created anything better than that. They say that Marxism-Leninism is bad. Be that as it may but we haven’t created anything better than that. And it was an entire system of views. We don’t have it these days,”
His country managed to minimize the damage the fall of the Soviet Union has done. It should be no surprise that there is at least somewhat of a positive view towards ML.
He absolutely did not.
He did. Chinese researchers point out that in the post-Soviet space, Belarus was the first country to overcome the disruption of traditional trade and economic relations caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union and achieve rapid economic growth.
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.4.0428
Also there’s one thing the Twitter poster left out: the reason Belarusian textbooks were recently revised was because Lukashenko had taken a look through a philosophy textbook and was horrified at what was being taught, and demanded a return to Soviet norms.
Educators went above and beyond and not only revised the philosophy textbook, but also threw out the old political economy textbook because as pointed out by the teacher in that short video, mainstream/liberal economic theory is useless for managing the Belarusian economy.
You’re arguing with a Belarusian… who’s family has lived in the country for hundreds of years… that you understand Belarusian politics and economics better then them.
Also that random bit about the philosophy textbook is complete nonsense. He doesn’t give any specifics, and what he said doesn’t mean anything.
Belarus has the highest standard of living of any post-Soviet state, has a strong state industry making farm machinery and is more self-sufficient when it comes to food than European countries.
At least you recognise your bias and you must know that since you live it is impossible for you to be objective like an outsider can. I’m not saying your experience is not valid, it is, it’s just silly to assume that everything you think/feel about Belarus is absolutely 100% correct and that anybody who hasn’t been born and lived in Belarus can’t possibly know anything about Belarus.